March is Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month. You probably didn’t know that, which is the whole point of this editorial.
Each year, the calendar is full of such designations, not only for each month of the calendar but also “awareness” weeks and days designated to call attention to a specific cause, many of them related to medical conditions, in an effort to solicit donations for research, treatment and prevention.
But not all efforts to raise awareness manage to break through to a broad
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